Awards2001 : Young
scientist prize of the French society of Astronomy and Astrophysics
(SF2A)

Research
topics

Interdisciplinary
study of the physics and chemistry
of
interstellar dust and molecules with special interest in polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).Approach
combining astronomical
observations and laboratory studies.

Current
scientific responsibilities

Leader
of the laboratory experiment PIRENEA,Piège
à Ions pour la Recherche et l’Etude de Nouvelles
Espèces Astrochimiques, an original set-up dedicated to the
study of the photophysics and chemistry of macromolecules and
nanograins in interstellar and circumstellar conditions.

Co-Investigator
of the heterodyne spectrometer HIFI of the ESA Herschel space
observatory (launch 2009) . Special interest in
the physics and chemistry of photodissociation regions and the science
dedicated to carbon macromolecules (identification of these species
using the deformation modes of the carbon skeleton in the far-IR).

Simon A. and Joblin C., Photodissociation
of [Fex(C24H12)y]+ complexes in the PIRENEA set-up : iron-PAH clusters
as good candidates for interstellar very small grains, J.
Phys. Chem. A 113 (2009), 4878-4888

Joblin
C.,Coupling
between PAHs, very small carbonaceous grains and H2 in
photodissociation regions. Observational and laboratory approach,
Astro-Chemistry from Laboratory to Telescope, Cardiff (UK),
6-7/01/05

Joblin C., Aromatic
molecules in space and in laboratory,
International Workshop Devoted to Dark Matter in the Solar
System, Meudon (France), 3-28/05/99

Joblin C., Which
carriers for the unidentified IR emission bands ? Observations and
Laboratory simulations, Chemistry and Physics of
Molecules and Grains in Space, University of Nottingham (UK),
15-17/04/98